Richmond Community Foundation

Sparkpoint contra costa: served 1,034 clients through its four offices in contra costa county. The program continues to exceed its metrics for helping clients increase income, increase savings, and reduce debt. 74% of clients made a 30% or greater improvement with their debt, income, savings and/or credit within 3 months time. Spcc also has offices at the contra costa college center and diablo valley college.

Ensuring opportunity: a collaborative effort to end poverty in contra costa by focusing on policy change and movement building. It's current priorities include policies and movement building for racial equity, housing stability, and budget justice.

Equip Richmond: a multi-year economic revitalization strategy that increases and sustains Community economic viability through services that improve economic self-sufficiency and help small businesses create and sustain jobs. The goals of the project are to build that capacity of richmond/north Richmond Community organizations to deliver economic benefits to their communities and build individual capacity and better conditions for current residents. Currently five projects are part of the equip Richmond initiative. These include a cooperative business hub (cobiz), a comprehensive employment training center (cet), a social enterprise for a local nonprofit (pogo park products), a construction resource center, and finally, barrier removal services for those clients enrolled in the other projects so that they can achieve success.

Healthy Richmond: a 10-year partnership to create meaningful and lasting improvements in the health of children and youth in Richmond. Richmond is one of 14 communities across California taking part in a statewide initiative called building healthy communities, sponsored by the California endowment. The program completed a neighborhood improvement plan for north Richmond, and impacted health access and policies.